Woman convicted in child's death up for parole

Crevitt admitted to taking LSD and tossing toddler into river canal

Lisa Ameen Crevitt, who admitted taking LSD and tossing her toddler into a river canal, is up for parole in March after 27 years in prison.

The child's father is fighting to keep her behind bars.

Crevitt was sentenced to life in prison in 1985 for the murder of her 2½-year-old daughter, Nikki. She had claimed the girl was abducted May 16, 1985, from a store in what was then Battlefield Mall in Vicksburg.

Prosecutors said she threw the girl into the Sunflower Diversion Canal about 12 miles north of Vicksburg.

The child's father, Jeff Crevitt, a Warren County justice court judge, told the Vicksburg Post that he and other family members went before the State Parole Board this month to oppose her parole.

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